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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...carry on the ideals of American democracy, this paternalistic movement throughout the country must be halted. We must aim, as we have been aiming, only with ever increasing vigor, to raise the average mental power of the people through better education-- in the broadest sense of the word. Such a program can best be carried out through the colleges. Indeed a certain amount of compulsion is often an absolute necessity in our American universities. This does not mean at all that they should increase compulsion in order to force down the national lever against it. It simply means that they...
...President William Howard Taft has sent word to the University that he will be unable to speak on the League of Nations in Sanders Theatre on May 27, as was previously announced. The reason for Mr. Taft's change in plans is his speaking tour of the country which will start on May 21, and will not end until the eighth of June. He was also forced to cancel his engagements to address the students of Yale and Cornell...
...LaFarge writes "To Frederic Schenck". The value of the poem is in the feeling it expresses toward its subject; a value marred only by the frequent lapses in word or phrase from the exalted to the mediocre. Possibly a simpler form might have left the evident sincerity of the work freer to be felt, but as it stands we may be grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing...
...Victory Liberty Loan Campaign in the College has gone "over the top". Gratifying as the word's sound, every sane undergraduate knew all along that sooner or later in the campaign they would be safely translated into fact. The chief question has been from the first not one of victory or defeat, but of the extent and character of the victory...
...Word has just been received from Paris that Major Arthur D. Hill, LL.B. '94, of the Judge-Advocate Department of the United States Army has been decorated by General Petain with the cross of the Legion of Honor Major Hill went to Tour, France, in January, 1918, where he was connected with the department of claims. After the signing of the armistice he was sent to Paris with the finance department, and is now on his way to Italy...